The most important thing when honoring guests from foreign countries is to accept and understand the differences. Here are some of the differences that people have in their different cultures.
In the United States, Britain and most Western countries, men should remove their hats (including baseball caps) when attending church services, at funerals and during the singing of the national anthem. A gentleman never wears a hat inside a building, and a guest who walks into someone’s home wearing a hat is considered a buffoon whose parents did a bad job of educating their offspring——for it rarely rains inside a house!
The French are not rude, but they do not like smiles. They just believe that anyone who smiles a lot is an idiot. If you want to relate to the French, smile with your eyes, do not grin with your mouth.
Do not bring wine to dinner at the home of a French person; such an act is thought to show a lack of confidence in the host’
A. saying hello to them whenever you meet them
B. accepting and understanding their different cultures
C. sharing happiness and hardship with them
D. helping them get what they hope for
| The most important thing when honoring
guests from foreign countries is to accept and understand the differences. Here
are some of the differences that people have in their different
cultures. In the United States, Britain and most Western countries, men should remove their hats (including baseball caps) when attending church services, at funerals and during the singing of the national anthem. A gentleman never wears a hat inside a building, and a guest who walks into someone’s home wearing a hat is considered a buffoon whose parents did a bad job of educating their offspring——for it rarely rains inside a house! The French are not rude, but they do not like smiles. They just believe that anyone who smiles a lot is an idiot. If you want to relate to the French, smile with your eyes, do not grin with your mouth. Do not bring wine A. saying hello to them whenever you meet them B. accepting and understanding their different cultures C. sharing happiness and hardship with them D. helping them get what they hope for [单项选择]Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at ail. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year, or manured a field; but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries arid ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at gettin
A. not have any quarrels to settle B. not fight when there are no quarrels to settle C. settle their quarrels without fighting D. settle their quarrels by seeing which side can kill off the greatest number of the other side 我来回答: 提交
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